2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis NY TIMES scathing opinion piece of Trump in the 3rd debate is a must read
It won't let me cut and paste a snippet....you will have to go to the link.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/clinton-trump-third-debate-election-2016/donald-trumps-nasty-habits?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
mike_c
(36,281 posts)My goodness, the grey lady does not like Mr Trump. Scroll down. It goes on.
on edit: Maureen Dowd eviscerates him. "Bigly."
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)elleng
(130,989 posts)of a man who has repeatedly been called out for how he treats women. Such a nasty woman, he said.
Mrs. Clinton has pursued a calculated strategy of baiting her opponent to see if he would lash out. She called him a puppet of Vladimir Putin, among other digs. Mr. Trump clearly could no longer contain himself by the end of this debate.
That cutting dismissal, as well as his taunt that her husband didnt agree with her, played to the heart of the gender dynamics of this election. A man hypersensitive to criticism of any kind was under constant challenge from a confident, assertive woman. Mr. Trumps advisers, knowing that he had to win over women, particularly the suburban women who have voted Republican in the past, have tried coaching him to keep his cool. His daughter Ivanka tried putting forward a child care plan. But Mrs. Clinton got under his thin skin, and it showed. . .
Mr. Trump went into this debate knowing that the polls show him trailing her in state after key state. The very women he has treated his whole life as objects to leer at or belittle now are exacting their revenge: Many tell pollsters they are not voting for him.
Nobody has more respect for women than I do, Mr. Trump insisted after Chris Wallace, the debates moderator, challenged him about the accusations of groping.
His own words contradicted his claim.'
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)elleng
(130,989 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)"new lows of infantile nonsense."
Forget his lack of experience in government, his lack of policie--his personality disqualifies him. He simply is not fit to serve in such an important position.
That's what we get when America goes tabloid, making "reality" show performers stars in the first place and then not being smart enough to realize that simply being a "star" doesn't make you presidential material.
tab·loid
North American, modifier
-sensational in a lurid or vulgar way
Cha
(297,339 posts)Hillary Clinton at the conclusion of the third presidential debate. Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times
The Bullfight in Vegas
"It was an appropriately petulant response, a schoolboys holdout when caught in a petty crime, or an outright lie. It would be no more than another self-inflicted wound on his candidacy, save for the fact that he was trying to hold the Constitution of the United States and our civic unity hostage. He then went on to say that the whole election was already rigged simply because Mrs. Clinton had been allowed to run, as opposed to being, presumably, in jail or under indictment. From schoolboy to caudillo, in one leap."
Brilliant articles, Agador.. thank you!
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Hi Cha!! Good to see you!
Cha
(297,339 posts)LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)Thanks.